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Just wanted to create a thread on this and if anyone has heard from reliable sources, of well known people who have knowledge in blockchain technology that are recently undertaking new projects in cryptocurrency.

The well know star Akon is going to launch his own coin this year.
He'll be issuing an ICO to fund his project to finance infrastructure in Africa.
Guess the name of coin?
AKoin :D

This year alone a lot of celebrities are endorsing crytpocurrencies for their brands and project. A typical example is Akon, America pop star which lunches Akoin as the monetary currency for his energy city project.

haha thats very clever ! il look into that thanks!

I have heard many celebrities talking about Bitcoin in the past, for example Ashton Kutcher seems quite interested about it and seems to have some knowledge about it past the most standard "i've heard it's digital money" thing.

Rappers like Snopp Dogg and 50 Cent have claimed to own some.

And then we've had other clueless celebrities tricked into advertising ICO scams like Floyd Mayweather or Kate Perry.

Yes Akoin token presented by AKON has been trending for couple of weeks now and we can only hope that more celebrities have intentions of making cryptocurrency known to the universe.

Lets all hope for the success of every altcoin as we eliminate every scam tokens.
This thread will really be beneficial

Thanks.

There was one celebrity boxer who backed a cryptocurrency called Centra and things didn't turn out well for him.
;D ;D ;D
Founders of a cryptocurrency backed by Floyd Mayweather charged with fraud by SEC (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/03/floyd-mayweather-backed-cryptocurrency-ico-fraud-sec-says.html)

This was probablly the most interesting fact I read today. Also, great topic, didn't even think about it.

Celebraties around the globe might be using bitcoin and other digital currencies, but it is not much known to the outer world. As the market for bitcoin keeps increasing more people too has begun to use bitcoin. One thing specific is that Celebraties usage will easily make common people follow them.

I never buy celebrity and altcoin tokens, which are also called Fiat tokens. For me it is a signal that in addition to the name of these projects there is nothing more to offer. Celebrities can't answer for their actions because they're like prostitutes. Who will pay them that and praise. How can you trust advertising with people like that?

There are lots of celebrities expressing their support for cryptocurrencies! Also, a lot of celebrities have been partnered up with cryptocurrency project to gain publicity and support the emerging technology. Also, Sacramento Kings are planning to build miners inside the arena to mine Ethereum! Source : https://www.facebook.com/cnbccrypto/videos/1788436671239571/

I know russian pop star Olga Buzova start her own ICO project Buzcoin, and it is popular in Russia, now her bounty campaign is ongoing on BountyGuru platform and it will be till september. It is starts normal when celebrities has their own coin, everybody whants to get a part of hype))))

Here are some links for my previous post.

Ashton Kutcher: A tweet about Bitcoi

https://twitter.com/aplusk/status/837429583867629568

50 cent: "50 Cent accidentally made $8 million in bitcoin"

https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/24/16930010/50-cent-rich-bitcoin-twitter-instagram-humblebrag

Snopp Dogg: Selling his album for Bitcoin

https://twitter.com/snoopdogg/status/407350025677586433

And my favorite and most ridiculous one: Kate Perry meets with Warren Buffet and she ask him about cryptos

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/katy-perry-and-warren-buffett-apparently-gabbed-about-cryptocurrency.html

The only celebrities I've seen talking about crypto are guys in the tech or finance industry.  Warren Buffet is heavily against bitcoin which should be expected as he stands to lose a lot of money from its' success.

I did see some celebrities promoting ICO scams though.  They weren't interested in crypto, they just promoted it for the money.  I remember Floyd Mayweather, T.I, Paris Hilton , and Dj Khaled all promoting an ICO this past year.

Good day. Yes I've seen a few celebrities joining crypto recently. Even here in the Philippines and more likely there are some abroad too. Some projects are hiring them for more popularity and to entice more investors for celebrities can create a huge impact on a project. Its healthy for crypto I think. The more people who knows about crypto the more investors will join.

There are so many famous people interested in cryptocurrency and they've invested so much money in cryptocurrency. As I can remember that there is a thread about famous people get into crypto world in this forum with each post about famous people in crypto world you guys will be able to get 1 merit for it :)). I can't find out the link right now but as I can remember the list is really great.

McAfee the creator of the antivirus and the next american president promoted a lot of ICOs such se Bezop, Bobsrepair or Docacademic.

Indeed many world celebrities who know the world of crypto but they are only limited subject to be involved to be able to promote the project and seek personal gain, but not directly into a team or dev who plunge to take care and develop the platform well.  With his name already fame certainly many people who are more interested and believe. This way the project can work.

Remember about paris hilton and more celenbrities has been endorsed by scam project to promoting its scam project. I remember steven seagal was promoting scam ico too.
The majority of celebrities are getting paid for that. And that's why i won't take it.

Advisors style?  ;D

There are a few of celebrities who endorsed crypto projects. I think it shouldn’t be the main factor for investment decision. Focusing in the product and business model will be better.

I know for sure that Floyd Mayweather invests in the crypto currency. He participated as an adviser in 2 ICO projects

I also heard that politicians from Russia are investing millions in the cryptocurrency

Celebrities nothing needed here to support the crypto currencies. Business people are really need to have here on investment side, I do not know how many celebrities are acting for the crpyto related advertisement and invested on it.

If you know the celebrities who know about the crpyto currencies just share list their name below mate.
I will be help to know who are all they invested on cryptos actually.

The world of crypto has become a celebrity world too, with the potential that it turns out the world of crypto is more to provide benefits and benefits more than the world of celebrities who may be adjusted his age. Crypto world more and more enthusiasts and technological increasingly sophisticated so reasonable when celebrities began to plunge in the world a more profitable crypto.

you're absolutely right. not hypocritical that someone was looking for a profit, and cryptocurrency gave it. It will be more and more interested in crypto and ultimately involved.

Though most celebrities are paid to be in a crypto currency, but their presence in crypto currency will really make a big difference, they could help to bring bull run to crypt currency.

John McAfee is quite a famous person in this field. Founder of McAfee antivirus. His recommendations for buying cryptocurrencies, many listen.

I think that celebrities rarely invest in cryptocurrency, because they know little about them. Perhaps some invest in bitcoin, but other tokens - unlikely

There's so many of them actually but they just endorse the cryptocurrency not literally joining or involved into the community and theyre not doing it for free ofcourse. Most of them are training to gain money out of it although some of them
as I know ended up having problem with SEC because they endorsing a shitty coin not the good ones lol.

Still, there is no international big icon has expressed their favour for cryptocurrency openly but Bil Gates has said some negative word about this and so more banks chief also left this idea of cryptocurrency. But, I think they are must be indulged with cryptocurrency anonymously.

I saw Del Piero in the Helbiz campaign and Luis Figo in the STRYKZ campaign. I like football and I like them very much. This way, crypto currencies will be more famous.
 

Ashton Kutcher invests in cryptocurrencies. He's a pretty famous crypto enthusiast. Heard even Peris Hilton invests ;D

This is my opinion with what transpired as involvement of big celebrities in endorsing cryptocurrencies. I do think and much believe that many is investing into it, but in silence as taxation and controversy of responsibility will dragged them with any coin and thats the main reason. I know they’re trading and investing like anybody else, but chooses to do it in a dark and close room without any knowledge from media.

I remember hearing about Mark Zuckerberg in some sources, expressing an interest and wanting to learn more about it crypto earlier this year. However i havent heard any recent news regarding this...

There are many celebrities nowadays that are endorsing cryptocurrencies like floyd mayweather and dj khaled who endorses centra which turn out to be a scam ICO.  this celebrities are just being paid by the ICOs so that be endorsed I rather stay away from those ICOs.

if im not wrong i have ever heard some celebrities accepted his payment honor by crypto, i mean he accepted credited by bitcoin when bitcoin was around 100$ at 8 six year ago, and now he is become really rich because of that.

There are some people who are famous for their bitcoin investment, which is typically the pair of American twins who are the first billionaires to capitalize on their investment in the digital market.

Celebrities are the same fans of the crypto currency as we are. For example, Mike Tyson. Unlike most celebrities, whose interest in the novelty does not go beyond a few messages in social networks, Tyson directly tied bitcoin to his brand.

It is interesting to know why do you need this information? I did not paid attention on similar information before. I may be wrong but I consider that celebrities are mostly not successful investors and moreover you cannot be sure that celebrities are honest when talking about their interest about something because they may be greased to tell lie.

Ahaha :D :D

Jokes aside, people are skeptical towards cryptos. Celebrity endorsement may change that.
It might help the widespread use of cryptocurrencies.
I'm looking fordward to it.

The only one i heard of, which is still very fresh was Akon. He will be hosting it directly from Senegal and not the US where he is resident. I think Mark Zuckerberg should also be seen as a celebrity. He is also looking forward to bringing up his own cryptocurrency attached to Facebook.

Thanks for the links. Didn't know this guys have some crypto currencies as I am not into Hollywood or anything about celebrities.
Looks like there are some bad things that happened with Kate since the other guy is FUDding. He should have some proofs of what he is claiming about bubbles.
Just mere words wont prove it.
Luckily, bitcoin didn't end up on this kind of high value because of those celebrities. It was just Satoshi and the believers of bitcoin.

I red about rapper  Akon,he is creating own cryptocurrency,called AKoin.I also knew that there are 25 celebrities that are crypto enthusiast,as Lionel Messi,Ashton Kutcher and others.

We don't know what actually buffet do tell to perry when it comes to crypto but we can already presume things up basing on his previous insights with it which is pure negative thing. Hope she didn't took those advise too serious and might consider to go in the right path.Im well aware to those links or news above but still it doesn't make sense to follow or took it out seriously maybe op do tend to follow up some celebrities choices of coins because of possible Hype. (Just my own view).
And for those Mayweather fans been pulled in to invest then they do know already that not everything is suggested by famous ones would turn out to be good.

I've heard that even Mike Tyson and Ashton Kutcher support and try to make a profit of it.

Forget about the information noise. Believe me, all people who are engaged in investment have paid attention to crypto-currencies for a long time. News about their decisions is published at the right time.

If there is a celebrity who is going to promote a cryptocurrency then obviously, the price of the coin in the market will skyrocket but as of today, i did not see anyone who use a celebrity to promote their ico.

By well know people you mean people who are involved in technology, in that case then i know Bill gates has actually shown are real intrsset in Bitcoin when he was asked what he thinks about it and also Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook is definitely involved in it since he is trying to creazt his own cryptocurrency for people to use on Facebook, and also Tai Lopez who is a rich and a successful investor has also started investing in many small altcoins. and said that they are defiantly a source of profit

I've seen many well known people who support the usage of cryptocurrency and even advertise ICOs. This is good for the specific coin or token or even as a whole. However, I do not trust them advertising an ICO. They are just paid people without any knowledge about what they are advertising. Their advertisement could be just a sugar coating for an incoming scam.

I wold just ignore it, most celebs are only interested because they get paid stupid amounts to advertise them. Most celebs connected with ICOs has been a disaster.

With all due respect but that is completely irrelevant and we could even say that it can be counter productive, lets suppose that one of the most famous stars supported bitcoin and as a result his or her fans bought cryptocurrencies but since those people do not know anything about them they will panic at the first opportunity, do you really want people like that in the market?

I've heard about Akon and many other celebrities.  Footballer Michael Owen and boxer Manny Pacquiao.  I would like to believe that the participation of famous people, a really thought-out and useful contribution to cryptography.  And not an ordinary PR.

AKoin omgg hahahahaha, I like that. Also some good public awareness and a great thing for him to do it in Africa, any economic advancement would be great over there

I think the most interest regarding cryptocurrency is showed by Akon. Even he is deeply engaged with the industry. He has planned launch his own namaed AKOIN. I hope he will get some extra benefit as celeb. Let us hope for the best.

I heard about famous sportsmens and singer who promoting ICO but often it isn't successfull. Be carefull.

But the question is that this project would able to follow its true motive when they do already accumulate support funds or get investors? Chances would be still on 50-50 and just like other projects it do succeed on ico but later on they do already forgot on what they do propose or promised.
Seeing or following coins or projects endorsed by any famous celebrity wont really be ideal.

certainly, this will be the attraction for investors. the crypto must be very serious in their field and have a large allocation so that it cooperates with the celebrities. but sometimes it is also less effective because it will make people began to forget the analysis for investment and choose the figure of celebrities as the figure within the crypto. This is okay because it is also a strategy in marketing.

I have not heard much about any celebrity showing interest in cryptocurrency aside from Akon that would launch is coin called Akon. The issue here is not celebrities having interest in crypto but let's there be a policy that would guide and protect an ordinary lay man in crypto

yes this is good, because it is so much easier to promote cryptocurrency. Since they are already famous it is easier to give an explanation of cryptocurrency. But I see most of them are just investment-oriented cryptocurrency.

Here in our country, one tv host is now active in cryptocurrency. He is even one of the developer team of the ICO and they succeed. Also, I've heard that one of our world boxing champion, Manny Pacquiao will join and will invest in cryprocurrency.

Yes that is exactly what i meant. Well known people who  have the knowledge in blockchain technology.

Olga Buzova is going to launch Buzcoin, but I do not think that this project will achieve any success!